When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error (Hardcover)

CHAPTER ONE
Jumbo Jets Crashing

CHAPTER TWO
A Sea of Uncertainty

CHAPTER THREE
Making—or Missing—the Diagnosis

CHAPTER FOUR
The Fever

CHAPTER FIVE
Diagnostic Thinking

CHAPTER SIX
The Descent

CHAPTER SEVEN
For the Record

CHAPTER EIGHT
The Human Consequences

CHAPTER NINE
On the Clock

CHAPTER TEN
What You See

CHAPTER ELEVEN
I’ll See You in Court

CHAPTER TWELVE
Is There a Better Way?

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Looking for Answers

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Bringing Along Our Brains

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The Reckoning

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
So What’s a Patient to Do?

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Getting It Right

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index